单词 | country bookie |
释义 | country bookien. Caribbean. An unsophisticated person from the country. Cf. country bumpkin n. at country n. and adj. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] churlc1275 Hobc1325 Hodgec1386 charla1400 carlc1405 peasanta1450 hoggler1465 agrest1480 hoggener1488 rustical?1532 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 clown1563 Jocka1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 Corydon1581 gaffer1589 gran1591 russeting1597 dunghill1608 hog rubber1611 carlota1616 high shoe1647 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 cot1695 ruralist1739 Johnnya1774 Harry1796 bodach1830 bucolic1862 cafone1872 bogman1891 country bookie1904 desi1907 middle peasant1929 woodchuck1931 swede-basher1943 moegoe1953 shit-kicker1961 1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods ii. viii. 103 Life a rough an' land'art play For country buckies.] 1904 Penny Cuts (Trinidad) 24 Sept. Lizzy say ah is ah country bookie, an ah grow up in a cane piece. 1958 S. Selvon Turn again Tiger iv. 102 Don't play country-bookie all your life. 1982 M. Matura Meetings 57 We do' know if is just dem Country people trying a ting on we, dey smart yer know, yer car beat a Country Bookie fer smartness although dey look simple. 2000 tr. R. Philcox in M. Condé Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? (2004) iii. 146 Too many people saw him as a poor-white country bookie, barely capable of growing sugarcane. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1904 |
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